Category: Photography

Bastet’s Pixelventures: Illustrate the Poem

Reflections

The winding road of life
Takes me from project to project …
I wander along these dusty roads,
Encountering friends and sometime foes,
I can’t help contemplating
Upon the purpose of my existence. Continue reading “Bastet’s Pixelventures: Illustrate the Poem” →

Bastet’s Pixelventures: Playing with Apps

I was excited when I read that Bastet’s Pixelventures challenge for this week was to do some creative editing on an existing picture.

I have belonged to the Pacific NW Litter Project since it began in July of 2011. I decided to use a picture I had taken at the end of our first work party. We pulled a lot of garbage out of a forested area of Seattle on that day! Continue reading “Bastet’s Pixelventures: Playing with Apps” →

FOUND!

Soon after I returned from India in January, I received a series of emails from neighbors letting me know they had been robbed.  In the 40 years I’ve lived here, I’ve had only one break-in.  That was in the 70’s and was clearly the work of a child.  l made that conclusion at the time because the thief had ignored the boombox and other things that were of value.  The only item taken was a piggy bank.  They then dropped the piggy bank as they fled down the back stairs.  Loose change was scattered everywhere. Continue reading “FOUND!” →

Bastet’s Pixelventures: One Point Perspective

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The most common form of litter in the world are cigarette butts.  It is estimated that 4.5 trillion of the butts are tossed yearly.

Many people don’t realize that cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate tow, not cotton, and they can take decades to degrade.

Birds and animals eat these toxic items.   Investigators in a San Diego State University study  discovered that if you put fathead minnows and top smelt in a liter of water that also contains a single cigarette butt, half of the fish will die.

I decided I would answer this week’s Bastet’s Pixelventures challenge by creating a picture that shows the enormity of the cigarette butt litter problem.  I did that by placing 1,375 butts in a single line on a sidewalk near my home.

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Here is my entry for this week’s challenge!

 

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1966: The Beginning of a Grand Adventure

As some of you know from A Surprise View of My Past, I was recently gifted with digital copies of slides my father had taken during my childhood. Since I left home when I was 17 years old, I had never seen most of those photos before.  The only childhood pictures I have are all  in black and white, whereas the slides my brother sent me were all in color. Since I have very few memories of my childhood, I viewed them with great interest.

When I read today’s The Daily Post Writing Challenge: Snapshot Stories the three pictures of me leaving home for college came to mind.

I had been unhappy at home for as long as I could remember. For three years, I marked off the days on a calendar; each day a day closer to the time I would leave to go to college.

Continue reading “1966: The Beginning of a Grand Adventure” →

A Surprise View of My Past

I left home at 17 to go to college and had very little contact with my family after that.  About a month ago, my brother Bob emailed me and told me he had my father’s slides.  (My father died in 1999.)  He asked if I would be interested in seeing them.

Bob ended up having them changed into digital format and sent them to me.  I already had some pictures from when I was young, but not many, and they are all in black and white.  These slides are all in color!  Most of them I had never seen before, or at least not in the last 50+ years!  It has been a real treat to have a surprise view of my past.

If you like, you can click on one of the pictures and see them all in a slide show format! Continue reading “A Surprise View of My Past” →